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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.

Obama's Just..... Different

By Marc Ambinder
Apr 27 2009, 4:17 PM ET Comment

It's 100-Day pollapallooza this week, so we'll be highlighting only some of the more interesting findings. CNN highlights the now CWish finding that Obama is more personally popular than his policies. (Rahm'll take that.)   And CBS News/New York Times's surveyists found that nearly 70% of Americans believe Obama is different from the average politician. Of those, 4 in ten say it's his style of governing.  There's a partisan split, of course, but -- and this will cheer the White House, which watches the same number in its DNC-sponsored polling -- the vast majority of independents think Obama behaves differently than the average politician.

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